1987 Saturday — Tandem Bicycling

This is a back-blip — the Blipfoto rules allow us to post all the way back to our date of birth. So I do. I am currently (5-25-2023) looking through all my old photos and photo albums and saving some here and tossing out lots and lots of them.

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We purchased our tandem in the summer of 1984. It provided us with amazing exercise; fabulous recreation; and a healthy outlet to burn off anxiety and frustration while raising two teenagers and having the stress of high energy, people-pleasing careers. When it was all said and done and we stopped tandem bicycling; we had pedaled a definite 10,000 miles and then some.

We eventually completed three summer vacations — each for two weeks — riding the tandem for 500+ miles to our destination, which usually was home..

In summer of ‘86 we put the tandem on an airplane with us to San Francisco and then spent 2-weeks pedaling to home in SoCal. In the summer of 1988 we put the tandem on the Amtrak train with us to Eugene, Oregon. Then we cycled 60 miles west to Florence, Oregon on the coast to meet a group of other bicycle people and spent 2-weeks pedaling to San Francisco. Then in the summer of ‘92 we traveled by van with our tandem to San Francisco and then bicycled south 500+ miles to our home in SoCal.

We always rode with helmets on our heads, so I am not sure why we do not have them on in this photo. I think it was just strictly for the photo session.

Rosie (& Mr. Fun), aka Carol
and Chloe & Mitzi too!